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Lees meerProject Titan + F1 supercar brains + ??? = profit Apple, the reassuringly expensive maker of iThings, is reportedly trying to convince Formula One racing car firm McLaren's execs to fall into line with a buyout, according to reports.…
Lees meerWe asked them and they said it's all good, so we're happy The Financial Conduct Authority has said there’s no need to launch a full market study into insurers’ use of big data, despite concerns that insurers' could be using to charge consumers more.…
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Lees meerIt's a bug, not a feature – Linux distro vendors are responsible Lenovo has denied deploying BIOS "hacks" to lock Windows 10 installations to its signature edition PCs.…
Lees meerWorld, meet the Dell EMC Validated System Dell is all about engineered systems, or so its CEO Mickey D said recently, but actions speak louder than words and today the Texan infrastructure baron rolled out a box targeting firms running SAP HANA.…
Lees meerFrom mainframe to DevOps in just 40 years... Veteran software outfit CA has hoovered up Israeli testing outfit BlazeMeter to burnish its DevOps and testing credentials.…
Lees meerHPE asset disposals exercise - to possibly prep for an acquisition? Comment On the day the Dell/EMC acquisition/merger completed, HPE announced it was selling off a load of non-core software assets in a “spin-off” merger with UK’s Micro Focus.…
Lees meerFlashy NVMe pair up to 1TB – for now.... Samsung has introduced 960 EVO and 960 PRO M.2-format consumer SSDs with an NVMe interface and a promised 2TB capacity.…
Lees meerSeagate's Kinetic drives get a new twist on ye olde JBOD Frog object storage startup OpenIO is banging on with supporting Seagate’s Kinetic disk drives, and has certified its software on the drives in a Kinetic Plugfest.…
Lees meerWater got into where water should not have been Weird new warship USS Zumwalt has broken down while on sea trials, three weeks ahead of her formal commissioning ceremony.…
Lees meerNow only local spy agencies can slurp your data. Hurrah! Microsoft has started to serve up Azure services from a new cloud region in Germany – operated under the supervision of a data trustee – to pitch for European punters with concerns about secur…
Lees meerMan flees with family Yet another British family has been forced to flee its habitat after an infestation of Brazilian wandering spiders smuggled itself into their nest on the back of a bunch of supermarket bananas.…
Lees meerNon-volatile RAMmer enters the most volatile situation of all MRAM startup Everspin has filed for an IPO.…
Lees meerWe're not making this up, it's a real product Someone with far more time and money than sense has developed a “real flame smart candle” that can be controlled over Bluetooth. No, really.…
Lees meerRCMP conduct internal investigation to see if it could be done A Canadian man accused of smuggling $180,000 of gold out of the Royal mint – allegedly in his anal cavity – is awaiting a court verdict after his defence condemned the government’s case …
Lees meerTrimmed down biz 'possible' target for Dell, Cisco, Lenovo, Huawei and private equity The number two at Hewlett Packard Enterprise has brushed off talk the slimmed-down organisation could be vulnerable to a takeover, as the company is again linked w…
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Lees meerA meat and two meats Rejoice! The eternal dilemma of whether to have a hot dog or a burger has now been answered.…
Lees meerKaminario is adding cloudy analytics to all flash array Unlike real clouds which hide things, Kaminario is adding a Clarity analytics cloud to its K2 all-flash arrays.…
Lees meerEr, and you might wish to READ them too Migrating to an outsourced IT service including cloud is a great opportunity to outsource responsibility for IT and employees while simultaneously increasing efficiency and decreasing cost. At least, that’s th…
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